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...Prime mystery to Wall Street analysts has always been the exact part played by "little fellows" in market activity. To clear it up the Securities & Exchange Com-mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with...
Defender. To small boys who sail model boats on duck ponds, the best models are those patterned after America's Cup yachts. Currently the best America's Cup yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important...
With co-captain Pete Ward in the infirmary, Jim Kunen is slated to face Anderson in the 135-pound class, while Guy Drake will represent Harvard in the exhibition match against Loo of Springfield...
...many words expressing contempt for age -'dodderer,' 'back number.' and so on. There are too many words devoted to the expression of passing moods extraordinarily analyzed. No one should have had time or leisure to distinguish the fine facets of moods so clearly. I find loo many ingenuities for the expression of fashion distinctions in clothes, both male and female. I find too large a vocabulary -for a virile nation-devoted to distinguish every possible kind of comfort at every hour of the day and night." Most notable increase is in the number...
...clear windless night last week when the temperature hovered near freezing, an airplane skimmed back & forth, back & forth across a lowland field in eastern Wisconsin. From midnight until 5 a. m. the plane continued its lonely patrol at loo ft. altitude, barely missing the tamarack trees bordering the field. At dawn it flew away, to return another chill, cloudless night...